DIY Print Dryer For Ecosol Printer? Show Me Yours...

[player]

I am wondering if anyone has a homemade print dryer/heater? I was thinking about making one for my Roland VP540i out of a couple of ceramic heaters, but thought someone here would have come up with a better idea.

Please show or describe yours.

 

[BigPrintn]

http://www.heavyweight-hydro.com/onlinestore/images/T/Air King Stand.jpg
Its what I use.

 

[Ragnabrok]

Customer made a frame of 2x4's, in the shape of a fridge, with coroplast walls. Added a metal grille on the bottom with some plastic core ends as stands. Mounted a box fan with a furnace filter on top of it, and had an open roof. Basically a filtered vertical wind tunnel.

 

[player]

But no heat... Is heat not an important part of speeding up drying?

 

[Ragnabrok]

Heat is needed during a print for solvent ink, to make the media more receptive. once it's on there, you are waiting for the solvent to evaporate, blowing the vapor away speeds this up. I can't say if heated air would speed up the result, or make shrinkage more or less of an issue.

 

[Gino]

Are we talking a dryer for screen printing or solvent inkjet prints ??

 

[CanuckSigns]

we just recently printed on some backlit film that seemed to take FOREVER to dry because we were double printing it. we set up a tower fan to blow across it and the prints started drying to the touch by the time it hit the take up reel, so a simple fan seems to help quite a bit.

 

[player]

Gino- 54" Roland ecosol...

 

[Gino]

Basically, any air movement will remove the solvents as they rise up. Naturally if it's a warm air, it will help a little, but cool is nice in summer.